The good news is April's pregnant. The bad news...
Warnings: this is a dark one, especially at the beginning. The only rule here, more or less, is that there are no rules...there is no guarantee of action, adventure, happiness, or survival within any given chapter.
"Empathy" now holds the distinction of being the only multi-chapter story I've actually finished, which makes up a little for my ambivalence about the story as a whole...